Gildas Bandonicus Quotes

The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.

If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.

To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

But the sunshine aye shall light the sky, As round and round we run; And the truth shall ever come uppermost, And justice shall be done.

So don't be tempted by the shiny apple Don't you eat of a bitter fruit Hunger only for a taste of justice Hunger only for a world of truth 'Cause all that you have is your soul.

I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience.

What is right has to win the day over what we may see as rights.

I suppose the thing I most would have liked to have known or been reassured about is that in the world, what counts more than talent, what counts more than energy or concentration or commitment, or anything else - is kindness. And the more in the world that you encounter kindness and cheerfulness - which is its kind of amiable uncle or aunt - the better the world always is. And all the big words: virtue, justice, truth - are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

Nothing can be truly great which is not right.

Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.

In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness.

It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image.